Special Showing

Steamboat Bill, Jr.

Thursday, November 30 at 8pm

To celebrate Images’ anniversary this year, we will present silent classic Steamboat Bill, Jr. accompanied by live music on November 30, 2017—101 years to the day that the first film was presented here at 50 Spring Street.

Steamboat Bill, Jr.

Celebrate 101 years of movies on Spring Street with this Buster Keaton silent classic featuring live musical accompaniment by Donald Sosin and Joanna Seaton. (They played along with last year's Safety Last!)

Comic genius Keaton turns in one of his most amazing performances as a college student who returns home to help his crusty old riverboat captain father compete with the far more successful, luxury riverboat owner J.J. King, who also happens to be the father of Bill, Jr.’s sweetheart. To make matters worse, a cyclone blows through the area, setting the stage for some of Keaton’s finest stunts on camera and perhaps one of the most iconic scenes in all silent cinema.

This event is supported by the Fund for Williamstown, a fund of Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation.

Director: Charles Reisner

Runtime: 71

Genre: Comedy, Silent

“Buster Keaton’s face is one of the great works of twentieth-century art. And it was never more lovingly framed than in this slick, sweet-natured and insanely inventive 1928 silent comedy masterpiece.”

– Time Out

This event is supported by the Fund for Williamstown, a fund of the Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation.

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Celebrating its 100th anniversary in 2016, Images Cinema is
a nonprofit, independent movie theater presenting a wide array
of films to the Berkshires year-round. We are driven by our
love of cinema and dedicated to the exploration of film as an
art form and a source of entertainment.